Hey everybody, this is The Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am so excited to share with you a little preview of next week's episode with Connor Roy himself, Alan Ruck.

Alan and I talked just a couple of days after the series finale of Succession,

and I began by asking him for his thoughts on how everything wrapped up

and what the future holds for our new ambassador to Slovenia.

Consider this, your spoiler warning.

I actually did not watch it Sunday night because we had some stuff going on and just family stuff and it got to be late.

And it was like, I don't want to do that now.

So I woke up Monday morning and like at 8 o'clock in the morning, I watched the show.

And I was messed up all day.

Yeah, it was tough.

I mean, I just got the blues pretty hard.

I thought I thought that Jesse and all of our writers did a beautiful job of sewing everything up in a way that made perfect sense, you know, and honored sort of the spirit of the show.

There was no happy ending, I mean, except for Tom.

I guess.

I don't know how happy he's going to be.

Be careful what you wish for, right?

Because you get it.

So I thought it was really excellent in that regard that some things are just left ambivalent, you know.

And that's kind of been Jesse's approach to the show, is that he's fascinated by all the different reactions to the different plot points, the different events, the different characters.

I was just at a school function yesterday for my daughter, and a woman came up to me and said,

I hate Shiv.

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